Re: HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)

Originally Posted by givré

qpieus, hum i updated hal with the fix from upstream. Do you use the main-all component ? What version of hal do you use ?

givré - yes I used main-all when I added the repository and did the install.
HAL is currently on version 0.5.7-1ubuntu19givre2 (this is after the ntfs-3g installation 2 days ago)
HAL was at 0.5.7-1ubuntu18.2 before the ntfs-3g install. (luckily I had made a file listing of all my installed packages a few days ago!)
You said you updated the hal. Is my hal version the updated one?
I noticed in the package manager that a couple other packages are also now at version 0.5.7-1ubuntu19givre2: libhal-storage1 and libhal1 (these also were at version 0.5.7-1ubuntu18.2 before the driver install).
Do yo have any suggestions?
Thanks!

Edit: forgot to add that pmount is now at version 0.9.11-1ubuntu2givre7 (it was at 0.9.11-1ubuntu1 before the driver install).

Last edited by qpieus; November 29th, 2006 at 02:13 AM.
Reason: added pmount version info

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Re: HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)

Ok, so your versions are ok.
Long story short : Long time ago, i provided a patched hal that works pretty well, but apparently failed on kde (even i couldn't test it myself). The patch maked hal recognize fuse fs. But 2 month ago, david zeuthen (upstream) provide a fix to this problem, and i changed my path to follow upstream fix. And this patch went also in official edgy hal.

So the hal you are running is all official goods, and should work.
Also your problem seams unrelated. I don't see how hal could create a Buffer I/O error, but i may be wrong.

Try to revert to official dapper hal and retry :

Code:

sudo aptitude install hal=0.5.7-1ubuntu18.2

Important, use aptitude, apt-get never do good result when reverting multiple packages.

Re: HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)

Well I went back to the previous versions of hal, libhal-storage1, libhal1 and pmount, and removed ntfs-3g.
Unfortunately I still get the error and auto mounting of usb devices is still broken. I'm sad
Any suggestions? Is there something I missed as far as reverting the system to as it was before the ntfs-3g installation? Maybe there's something else I need to undo...

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Re: HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)

Originally Posted by givré

eustace, Say me what you think.

As I said earlier I'm very thankful for all your work and I understand that being proactive in new kernel release for DD & EE would be to much work. I also know how much trouble it can be installing everything from scratch that would surely prevent me from using this gr8 app so in my opinion I’m happy as long as it works! But then on the other hand I have been using Google to try to find others with the same problem (speed problem) and not been able to find that many ppl sharing my problem so my conclusion would be that this is not a problem using the newest settings of files.

Re: HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using the ntfs-3g (easy & safe method)

Originally Posted by givré

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3. Configuration :

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a small bit of clarification, I am just figuring things out, from part "3. Configuration"..
i. should <the name you want> == <mount point>? I tried making them the same and tried making them different regardless it uses the hardware name (eg hda3)?
ii. a full hardware restart is not required is it? been doing ctl-alt-backspace and it seems to work, although for the above I have done a full hardware restart to make sure it wasn't that causing trouble.. anyhow, it should work, right?
iii. is there any safer way to check / verify if ntfs-3g is running on the partition without doing a write action (didn't see anything in the instructions)?

Re: HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)

1) <the name you want> == <mount point> yes
2) ctl-alt-backspace will do nothing interesting. The point is to restart hal. The best to do this is to restart your computer. You can also do the following :
- remount your ntfs partition
- Go on an unuse tty (<ctrl><alt><F2>)
- exit X (sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop)
- restart hal (sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart)
- start X (sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start)
3) the best way, type "mount" in a terminal, and check for fuse.